A group of miners had been beaten down repeatedly and were about to give up their claims to the big mining company executive when gunfighter-turnedpreacher Clint Eastwood showed up and emboldened the miners to stay the course.

that ain't the way the world works. if you earn your way you make a way. if you wait for a handout, you sit right where you are. when are you free-bees going to get over this bull and just get to work.

It must be nice to live in a make-believe world where only poor people are thieves and crooks. Im sure Bernie Madoff would agree with you. He is a victim of over-regulation, right? Do you pay attention to the news at all (wall st. CEO's ring a bell, Enron, BP)?
And your right, they dont sit around waiting for the government to give it to them. They have enough money to buy members of our government and supreme court first and then it takes no time to get it. They control what is legal and what is not and now there is no limit to what corporations can contribute to elections..nice. Regulation is bad for their business. Who needs clean drinking water and unpolluted oceans if it stands in the way of making that all-mighty dollar in a very legal yet morally corrupt way.
I read an interesting story once about trying to squeeze a camel through the eye of a needle...

Im not sure what failures you are referring to. I don’t think the size of my bank account decides whether I am “successful”. That is precisely the issue with our world. Money worship.

I never said all rich people are crooks. But when they are, it is more devastating and the consequences are far reaching, the impact is global. I don’t worry about the small time people on public assistance, Im concerned about the big dogs whos lack of morality affects the rest of us.

And Im also not sure where the 90% figure comes from. Facts are funny things.

the 90% figure comes from experience. i worked as a contractor for those agencies. nearly all of the ones on public assistance could work if they so chose.

take a look at the federal budget and you will quickly see that the largest budget items are the give-away programs. madhoff only affected a small group of guess what RICH PEOPLE. he stole money from people who already had money.

so not only are they doing something stupid by even buying the things when the taxpayer is paying for the food. but they are leasing them so that at the end of the day the taxpayers have paid for NOTHING.

I'm not sure what the 'regular' people can do about this? We should be able to do everything, it's OUR country, not the GOVERNMENT'S! Even if we throw out the current people in office, I highly doubt the next set would be any better, dem or rep.

My wife and I were at Sams the other day and watch the people in front of us purchase all sorts of crazy things like expensive protein bars and then some really dumb things and then come the groceries they whipped out the food stamps I was like Geesh and I am battling middle income with no pay raise in five years and a pay cut this year.

Some of us have to eat those protein bars on direction of the clinic doctors. Food stamps serve their purpose. Please, someone tore my mailbox upsin. Anybody want to donate a heavy rural mailbox? I would prefer a new one.